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Hey ive got my ibook with the airport extreme card completelly ready to run with my airport extreme dock the modem was usb so i had to set it up using ethernet using dhcp, however when im wanting to use it its telling me, there doesnt seem to be anything connected to the airport base station wan connection, this is where i got lost where is all the cables meant to go to?

Well your DSL or cable modem needs to be connected via Ethernet cable to the Airport base station. If you have the airport extreme, I think you have 2 ethernet jacks: You need to plug it into the WAN/DSL port.
Then you need to set up the base station with the airport admin utility.
After that

Right: airport = wireless, so by connecting your airport base station to your mac with a cable, you'd kind of miss the point.

The airport base station hooks up to an ethernet port on your dsl or cable modem. No USB.

Your iBook doesn't need any wires - the internal airport card will pick up the wireless signal from your airport base station and will transmit the internet data to you from the model you've plugged into it.

As aptmunich stated, you do not need any wires or anything going to your iBook, since you now have the airport all wires that use to go to the iBook to connect you to the internet, now go to the Airport. This means the iBook can be carried around or in any position any where in your house and you will not have to worry at all about wires anymore!